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				<h1>HOWTO: Microsoft documents</h1>
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			We know that <i>Microsoft Office</i> is the defacto standard, so it is something we have to cope with. The most common problem is Word documents -- many business people will type a document using Word and then attach it to an email and expect the recipients to be able to view it.
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			<h2>Abiword and Gnumeric</h2>
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				These 2 applications let you open and edit very simple *.doc and *.xls files.
				Abiword is known to crash and misbehave very frequently.. (<a href="http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112434">http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112434</a>)
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			<h2>LibreOffice</h2>
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				LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation.
				The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae.
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				Forum thread: <a href="http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85915">http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85915</a>
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			<h2>WPS Office</h2>
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				The WPS Office is a closed-source office suite that has the look and feel of Microsoft Office. It is light-weight and runs well on low end computers.
				WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android OS.
				WPS Office is a suite of software which is made up of three primary components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, and WPS Spreadsheet.
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				Forum thread: <a href="http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=102185">http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=102185</a>
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			<h2>Softmaker FreeOffice</h2>
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				FreeOffice, the friendly and powerful free office suite 'made in Germany', contains everything a good office suite needs:
                * FreeOffice TextMaker, the feature-rich and powerful word processor that reads and writes Microsoft Word files faithfully
                * FreeOffice PlanMaker, the Excel-compatible spreadsheet that lets you create even the most complex worksheets
                * FreeOffice Presentations, the presentation graphics software that handles PowerPoint files seamlessly and provides fantastic effects
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				i686 SFS... <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/vw947s6mnnl40c0/SoftMaker-FreeOffice2016-i686.sfs">http://www.mediafire.com/file/vw947s6mnnl40c0/SoftMaker-FreeOffice2016-i686.sfs</a>
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			<h2>MS Fonts</h2>
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				Yes, MS TrueType fonts can easily be used in Puppy -- it is just a matter of copying them across (or, if that is a legal problem, a symbolic link can be made from the Puppy partition to the fonts in the Windows partition).
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